The Finnish Literary Research Society Joins FILLM!| 19.4.2017 |FILLM is very happy to announce that the Finnish Literary Research Society
(Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seura, KTS) has joined the federation.

Below, you will find a few words of welcome from FILLM President, Margaret Higonnet, as well as a brief introduction to the KTS.For
more detailed information about the KTS, we strongly
recommend that you pay their website a visit.

You can also follow the KTS on Facebook.It is yet to be decided who will represent the KTS on the FILLM Committee. News on that will follow in the near future.Words of Welcome from FILLM President, Margaret R. Higonnet

"We welcome the Finnish Literary Research Society (KTS) as a new member of FILLM!

FILLM
and KTS were founded within a year of each other, and they share the
goal of supporting comparative scholarship on literature at many levels
and in different institutions. Thus the journal Avain
is a peer-reviewed quarterly specializing in comparative and Finnish
literary studies, like many of the journals published by the other
member societies of FILLM. We hope that members of the Finnish Literary
Research Society will be drawn to the Triennal Congresses of FILLM, the
next of which will be held in Vienna in 2020, and will find exchanges
with our sister societies fruitful. We encourage members also to submit
their work to the FILLM publication series. We look forward to our
cooperation.

The
Finnish Literary Research Society (Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seura, KTS)
was founded in 1927. The Society acts as a coordinating association for
literary scholars in Finland. It advances the study of literature and
promotes general interest in literary research.

The Society coordinates an annual research seminar and publishes the journal Avain – Finnish Review of Literary Studies.
The quarterly offers articles, essays, interviews and reviews focusing
on literary studies. The journal succeeds the Yearbook of Literary
Research Society published from 1929 to 2003. The Yearbook was replaced
by the journal Avain in 2004. Avain
is a peer-reviewed quarterly specializing in comparative and Finnish
literary studies. It is a Finnish-language journal but it welcomes
contributions in other languages with a specific focus on Finnish or
Finland’s Swedish literature.

The annual research seminars
organized by the Finnish Literary Research Society bring together
scholars from Finland and abroad. In addition to keynote speeches and
lectures the seminars offer workshops and panel discussion on specific
topics. In recent years the seminars have focused, for instance, on the
relation between literary and cultural studies; literature and
emotions; postcolonial theory; nature, culture, and identity; ethics,
aesthetics, and politics, environments, and the concept of mimesis.

KTS
joins the FILLM community with great pleasure. It is looking forward to
a long period of fruitful cooperation with colleagues from other member
associations in the fields of language and literary studies.